?A fund’s ongoing charges figure (OCF) is similar to the old-style total expense ratio. It reflects the annual charge to investors in the fund, in percentage terms, but does not include extra performance-related fees (where these are levied) or the fund’s trading expenses on its underlying investments.

1.8%

Fund size

£56m (£55m last year)

FE Risk score

?FE Risk Scores measure the riskiness of instruments relative to the FTSE 100 index of shares. Weekly volatility is measured over three years with recent behaviour counting more heavily than earlier behaviour. Cash-type investments will have scores close to zero. Funds will tend to have scores in the 0-150 range. The FTSE 100 is always scored at 100. There is no upper limit.

?Alpha is a measure of a fund's over- or under-performance by comparison to its benchmark. If the Alpha is 5, the fund has outperformed its benchmark by 5%; so the greater the Alpha, the greater the outperformance.

2.43

Beta

?Beta estimates a fund's volatility by comparison to that of its benchmark. A fund with a beta close to 1 means that the fund will move generally in line with the benchmark. Higher than 1 and the fund is more volatile than the benchmark and vice versa.

1.16

Sharpe

?This commonly-used measure calculates the level of return over and above the return of a notional risk-free investment, such as cash. The difference in returns is then divided by the fund's volatility. The resulting ratio is an indication of the amount of excess return generated per unit of risk.

0.3

Volatility

?Volatility (or standard deviation), when applied to an investment fund, expresses its risk. It shows how widely a range of returns varied from the fund's average return over a particular period. For example, if a fund had an average return of 5%, and its volatility was 15, this would mean that the range of its returns over the period had swung between +20% and -10%.

6.98

Tracking error

?This measures the standard deviation of a fund's excess returns over the returns of an index or benchmark portfolio. As such, it can be an indication of 'riskiness' in the manager's investment style. A Tracking Error below 2 suggests a passive approach. At 3 and above the the manager will be deploying a more active investment style.

2.91

Information ratio

?This is a useful risk-adjusted measure of actively managed fund performance. It is calculated by deducting the returns of the fund's benchmark from the fund's overall returns, then dividing the result by its tracking error. The higher the Information Ratio the better. It is generally considered that a figure of 0.5 reflects a good performance, 0.75 very good, and 1.00 outstanding.

0.96

R-Squared

?An indication of how closely correlated a fund is to an index or a benchmark. Values for R-Squared range between 0 and 1, with 0 indicating no correlation at all and 1 showing a perfect match. Values upwards of 0.7 suggest that the fund's behaviour is increasingly linked to its benchmark.

0.84

Price movement

52 week high341.57

52 week low300.69

Current bid price-

Current offer price-

Current mid price333.45

Region

1

Europe ex UK

50%

2

North America

30.1%

3

UK

6.6%

4

Global Emerging Markets

5%

5

Japan

3.6%

6

Pacific ex-Japan

2.9%

7

International

1%

8

Middle East/ Africa

0.8%

Industry sector

1

Financials

21.5%

2

Consumer Discretionary

15%

3

Information Technology

13.1%

4

Health Care

10%

5

Materials

9.6%

6

Consumer Staples

8.8%

7

Miscellaneous

7.9%

8

Industrials

7.3%

9

Energy

4.2%

Asset type

1

International Equities

52.3%

2

Global Fixed Interest

40.6%

3

Money Market

4.8%

4

Alternative Investment Strategies

1.6%

5

Property

0.7%

Individual holdings

1

FINNISH GOVERNMENT

3%

2

US TREASURY N/B 07/14 2.625

3%

3

GERMANY(FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF) 4.75% BDS 4/7/2028 EUR0.01

2.7%

4

SPAIN(KINGDOM OF) 5.5% NTS 30/04/21 EUR1000

2.6%

5

FRANCE(GOVT OF) 1% BDS 25/11/18 EUR1000

2.4%

6

GERMANY(FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF) 4.75% BDS 4/7/34 EUR0.01

2.3%

7

EASTSPRING JAPAN DY-RG GBP

1.8%

8

JPMORGAN CHASE & CO

1.8%

9

AIA GROUP LTD

1.7%

Management

Fund manager group

Sarasin

Fund manager company

Sarasin Investmentfonds Sicav

Fund type

Offshore Fund

Fund objective

Sarasin GlobalSar - Balanced (EUR) (the ”Fund”) seeks to achieve longterm capital appreciation while maintaining optimal risk diversification through global equity and bond investments. The debt securities may be issued by governments, corporations or other organisations.

Benchmark

Customised B/M

Investment style

Balanced

Investment method

Mixed

Fund managers

Name

Since

Biography

Aram Compton

31/08/2014

Aram Compton joined Sarasin & Partners in August 2007. He runs a selection of global multi-asset portfolios for institutional and retail clients, including the GlobalSar range, Sarasin’s flagship multi-asset product. Aram is a member of the firm’s Investment Policy Committee, which forms the firm’s asset allocation views, and he also invests in direct equities and bonds on a bottom up basis. He graduated from the ICMA Centre at Henley Business School with a BSc in International Securities, Investment and Banking and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

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